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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
boro to Nacogdoches, the origin of which is attributed to a
certain Mr. Trammel, was blazed about 1820.38 An older road
called Trammel's Trace from Arkansas to Nacogdoches and
this trail from Jonesboro must have been partly identical, for
the Jonesboro trail itself was called Trammel's Trace.3" At first
this route was only a horse path. As late as 1836 some evidence
indicates the possibility that there were still no wagon roads
connecting North Texas with South Texas.0 In 1837, Holland
Coffee and his bride left Washington-on-the-Brazos for the
Coffee Trading Post on Red River, north of present-day Denison.
They were forced to make the long, round-about journey east-
ward by road to Nacogdoches, northward probably by Trammel's
Trace to Red River and then westward, perhaps one hundred
miles, by road to their new home.4 In a few years a mail route
connected the Red River area with San Augustine,"4 but again
the road ran far to the east of a straight line between North
and South Texas. Information on just how early the first actual
wagon traffic began between Jonesboro and Nacogdoches is not
available, but the more direct link that was needed to join the
two parts of Texas came in 1840; in that year Colonel Cooke,
with a detachment of Texas soldiers, opened a road from Austin
to Coffee's Trading Post on Red River.'" The name of Preston,
from one of Cooke's men, was given to the village that grew up
at Coffee's Trading Post, and Cooke's road has since been known
as the Preston Road. This road passed through the Waco village
on the Brazos and by Cedar Springs in central Dallas County.
Citizens of Jonesboro or Clarksville could now follow one of the
two roads that led westward into present Grayson County until
3'R. L. Jones, "The Autobiography of Andrew Davis," The Southwestern
Historical Quarterly, XLIII, 323.
3' John Arrowsmith, Map of Texas Compiled from Surveys Recorded
In the Land Office of Texas, And Other Official Surveys (London, 1841).
The full route of Trammel's Trace from Jonesboro to Nacogdoches is shown
on this map. Some of the route has been repeated from older records on
the later Texas Land Office maps. It is shown on the maps of Rusk
County of 1895, of Panola County, 1897, of Harrison County, 1920, and
of Marion County, 1920.
40R. L. Jones, "The Autobiography of Andrew Davis," The Southwestern
Historical Quarterly, XLIII, 327.
"4Lucas and Hall, History of Grayson County, 36.
4"The Northern Standard, Feb. 10, 1844.
4"Sketch Showing the Route of the Military Road from Red River to
Austin, Wm. H. Hunt, Engineer, 1840. Drawn by H. L. Upshur, 1841.
This old map is in the library of the University of Texas.218
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